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Rites of Passage, installation view, 2023
Rites of Passage, installation view, 2023, Nengi Omuku and Phoebe Boswell, 2023

© Nengi Omuku © Phoebe Boswell Photo: Lucy Dawkins, courtesy Gagosian

Alumnae Phoebe Boswell and Nengi Omuku are showing in Rites of Passage at Gagosian, Britannia Street London WC1X 9JD, from 16 March - 29 April 2023. Rites of Passage, curated by Péjú Oshin, features work by nineteen contemporary artists who share a history of migration. Rites of Passage explores the idea of “liminal space,” a coinage of anthropologist Arnold van Gennep (1873–1957). In his 1909 book, after which the exhibition is titled, Van Gennep was among the first to observe that the transitional events of birth, puberty, marriage, and death are marked by ceremonies with a ritual function that transcends cultural boundaries.